Re: Survey on my site

2008-07-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That's why you register in your boss' name. (Just kidding.) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Survey on

Re: E-Discovery - Confidentiality

2008-07-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
While I don't have experience with any of that with regards to ITSM, I would appreciate it if you post anything you find to the ARSList. Thanks, Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008

OT: Friday (strange) humor

2008-07-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You can tell the boss has been out of the office this week. My team, in conjunction with a team that sits with us, took some old tubes and turned cube land into a Chinese temple, complete with both male and female lion statues, as well as a bagua mirror with the old Remedy logo to ward off evil

Re: SQL 2K5

2008-07-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm in a similar situation to what you are moving to. We have no problems with our SQL Server 2005 database and have been in production with it and ARS 7 and ITSM 7 (various patches) for over a year now. We didn't run into any pitfalls, just make sure ARAdmin has sufficient (dbo) access. Shaw

Re: Send a Diary Field as an attachment.

2008-07-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Sorry to take the original discussion off on a tangent, but do you know if runmacro can be used to output to any other format that isn't specified on the reports? My idea was to create a .ics file (iCalendar, which outlook can use), but I couldn't find a good way to create a plain text file wit

Re: Wrong AR server in email link

2008-07-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your problem, but couldn't you just go into the Admin tool and under Server Information, go to the Advanced tab and change the Email Notifications Web Path? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE arslist

Re: Deleted Defualt Approval Processes....

2008-07-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You don't really want to mess with that if you can help it, because there is a lot to it and you can easily mess things up. However, it was a requirements to do this at my company, so I learned over time all the caveats and whatnot. One thing that you have to look at is creating not only the a

ITSM Asset Management Products for Telecom Services

2008-07-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I've been tasked with configuring Asset Management to be able to account for our leased lines from various telecoms. There are a few issues, though, that prevent me from being able to do it correctly. The first problem is that Product Names need to be unique. This works for h

Re: Remedy: Time Reporting Module

2008-07-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I’m not aware of one either, even when I worked on CSS which is a mammoth compared to ITSM. I think it’s simply not a part of what BMC’s core applications are for, although you can easily design one in ARS. The trick is integrating it with AP and Accounting, if that is a requirement. Shawn Pi

Re: HTML emails and the subject line

2008-07-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've never seen an email client, including Outlook, that can apply any type of formatting to the Subject of an email message. This is probably more of a security thing than any other reason. Imagine how bad your spam would be if they could apply font size ="72" or blink tags to the Subject lin

Re: AD and CTM:People

2008-07-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In my implementation, I do lookups on my staging table to see if the Company, Site, and Organization exist already in Remedy. If they do, I directly create the People record and push that data. If not, I first do some pushes into the Site and Organization forms, and if a Company doesn't exist

Re: BMC UserWorld Miami Call For Presentations Is Now Open

2008-07-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Hi David, Are you also taking suggestions of topics that people would like to see covered at the conference? There are some things, such as a presentation on customizing the Change Management approval process, that I would like to hear experts at BMC discuss with us. I've made customizations

Re: Mid-Tier Problem...

2008-06-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Make sure IIS isn't using that port either. It shouldn't by default, but if you didn't set up IIS I would check it. Also, if you think something else may be using port 8080 (which I can't tell from your email), the easiest way to check is by running netstat -b from a command prompt, and lookin

Re: Renaming a company in ITSM 7

2008-06-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm fortunate in that I haven't had to do this yet. However, if I did, I would probably do it all in SQL via a stored procedure. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McClure, Don Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:23 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.O

Re: Integrating with another company's ARSystem

2008-06-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You know, the same thing applies to web services, and I'm not aware of any advantages of DSO over web services at this time if you're building an integration form that is used on both sides, with workflow to push to each separately. Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(AR

Re: Self-Employed Remedy Professionals

2008-06-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have in the past, but I found a good full-time job that pays well, so I took it. It's easier to deal with in my situation with a family now. When it was just me, or just my wife and I, we could travel, I could work until 2:00am and go in at 6:00am the next day, and we were ok taking more financi

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Attend BMC User World

2008-06-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Here are a few more: * Talk to vendors that have other software and services that may be useful for your implementation. * See demos of new products. * Get answers to technical questions from other Remedy developers/administrators and the engineers from BMC. * Se

Re: Anyone know of any good free blogs?

2008-06-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm a big fan of Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/), although it's got lots of functionality in addition to just blogs. It requires PHP and MySQL and I've gotten it working on both Linux (Apache) and Windows (IIS), although Linux and Apache are the easiest. On another email, you mentioned that you

Re: Job: Remedy Developer - Oklahoma City - Contract to Hire - Kforce

2008-06-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't mean to rain on everyone's parade, but I can't recommend Oklahoma City at all. I know everyone has different standards and opinions, but I think it would only appeal to a certain subset of people. Here are a few things that I didn't like about it: There are more churches than bars by a r

Re: Moving Task Templates, Support Groups, etc

2008-06-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's not a "good" strategy, but here's what we do. We only work on a certain number of things before moving them into production. Once the project is complete, we restore the backup of production to our other servers, then start on whatever is next. From: Action Request System discussion list(

Re: ARS 7.5

2008-06-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
As long as they don't plan on making Duke Nukem Forever* based on the ARS platform, we'll be ok. * Duke Nukem Forever is a sequel to a popular video game that has been promised to be released for over ten years, and each year the company issues a press release stating that it is going to be rele

Re: OT--Need Remedy Architect--Direct Hire

2008-06-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The shift you mention from ARS development to ITSM administration is definitely real, and I’ve seen many conversations over the past year or so about this on the ARSList and in other places. This is a deliberate shift on the part of BMC, because 1) it makes more money for them both in software

Re: OT--Need Remedy Architect--Direct Hire

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I agree with both of you as well. With ARS7, I spent perhaps a day playing with some of the new features until I figured them out well enough to use them. Things haven't changed that radically with ARS. As far as the job requirement posted here that was over 1050 words long, I do believe that

Re: OT--Need Remedy Architect--Direct Hire

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It makes a lot of sense to require OOB knowledge for a consultant position. My first exposure to ITSM 7 came with exposure to prior versions of ITSM as well as about ten years of ARS development experience. It was still a beast to work with, and there are lots of "gotchas" that you wouldn't neces

Re: ITSM 7.0+ - Inconsistent Menu Data

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We've run into this as well, and "customized" the menus to fix it. They may have corrected it in a patch, but if so I haven't seen it. On a side note, you'll notice that the three groups of fields you mentioned appear to have been developed by different people with different standards. That wo

Re: View and Vendor forms not allowed in Join Forms

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Since nobody else has responded, I'll just go ahead and tell you. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you don't have to create two new staging forms. The bad news is that you probably still have to create at least one regular form where both have escalations writing data to.

Re: OT--Need Remedy Architect--Direct Hire

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There's a guy on my Remedy team here named Jesus, but I don't know that he'd want to go work at BMC. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT--Need Remedy Ar

Re: Tiered Menu

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Personally, I think it would be painful to have a menu like that to begin with. Add more items to it and try clicking around it. You'll see that it's difficult to navigate, especially when you get submenus with larger amounts of items. People will try to click something then it might disappear b

Re: SQL help

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think this is perhaps closer to what you want, but I can't run it because it references fields that are not there. A lot of what you did may be valid (such as using double quotes) but I've not seen it used that way so I just converted it to look in a way that I am more comfortable with. Try it,

Re: Midtier Issues Turn Into Gross BMC Incompetence

2008-06-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
restored and is still exhibiting the same behavior. -Paul -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Midtier Issues Turn Into Gross BMC

Re: Midtier Issues Turn Into Gross BMC Incompetence

2008-06-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I love a good rant against BMC Support as much as the next person, but I'd like to see your problem resolved too. Can you give us more information that might help determine what the problem is? To start, are you using the Drill Down on the Table Field, or are you trying to open that record with a

Re: source contol implementation

2008-05-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have used it as well, and it worked fine with version 6.3 of ARS. However, prior versions did have problems (although it could have been an older Source Safe) where you would exit the Admin Tool where things are checked out to you, then when you go back in they are still checked out but not t

How to find what Products are not being used

2008-05-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We've been in production about a year now, and I've decided to start cleaning up the Product Categorizations (we made the mistake of importing them from the DSL in addition to our own.) So this morning I decided to write a quick and dirty SQL statement doing a union between all the modules we use

Re: Max Index on Form!

2008-05-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Tadeu, I don't think it's a matter of what the system allows, but what is best practices. There is no single right answer. You have to consider how many records are in the table, what the most common searches will be, etc. It's something that you need to work with a DBA on. They can run SQL

Re: AD and CTM:People

2008-05-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That is the way I did it, including defaulting some NULL fields that Remedy requires. I have an escalation that pulls the AD data (via a vendor form) into a staging table, which then uses filters to do validations and auto-population of some data, then if it passes all the validations, passes it i

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You know, you could always go to your management and tell them that the "I.T." in "ITSM" and "ITIL" stands for "Information Technology", and that there may be bigger risks involved in trying to make the ITSM suite have all the functionality they need for non-I.T. related things. Remedy is great for

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When I said is that there are no good answers, I should have qualified that. There are no good answers if you want a simple, broad, overreaching solution. Even with ITIL as a framework, you have to come up with your own answers to the questions. I see ITIL as almost a philosophy based around I.T

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually, it’s not that difficult to map your Product Categories to where they are useful for Asset Management, CMDB, and the rest of ITSM. From what I’ve seen with the CMDB and categorizations, it’s best to follow the K.I.S.S. method. I made a new class in CMDB 1 that ended up being a huge pa

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Part of the problem is that there are no good answers to your questions. By default, we put things in the BMC_ComputerSystem class, unless it fits in somewhere else. So a Blackberry technically is a computer, just a tiny one. So is a calculator. Stuff that doesn't have a class and isn't anythi

Re: Date/time format in MS SQL Server reports is not in a readable format (Epoch date).

2008-05-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I apologize in advance for not having all the details, but we did this at a company I used to work for. What you want to do is look through the Work Log field and find a special character that occurs somewhere around the date field. I wish I could remember what it was, because I think it was some

Re: Overview Console vs. Incident Management Console

2008-05-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually Lisa, I think Jase will find what you're suggesting under "Select Status Values" on the Overview Console instead. That is where the Overview Console's status preferences are stored. Why it isn't in the same place as all the other modules doesn't make much sense to me. Shawn Pierson ---

Re: ARWARN 70

2008-05-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Thad, That may be the case, but I wonder if some of those menus being referenced are changed by Active Links before you use them, or if they are back end forms that may not necessarily need the menus. It's still really bad, but I haven't seen any problems with things like building SLMs for Chan

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Scott, You are correct, but BMC sales folks often tell you that you either shouldn't customize or that there is no need to. They also like to push for any customizations, even small cosmetic ones, being something you should hire BMC Professional Services to do. On the other hand, BMC themsel

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would add that not only do most organizations not hire someone as only a "do as you are told" resource, if you adopt that mindset you can get into a lot of trouble. I've been on site at places where people did exactly what management told them to do, which was flawed, then the managers became up

Re: IM Patch 7 Installer?

2008-05-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You need to get your sales people involved. I would think that many other companies/government agencies are in the same boat you are, and would have an alternative. If your organization alone is big enough, they can complain enough to the sales people to force BMC to do something. I'm sure BMC w

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
According to what I’ve been told, the best practice is to not assign anything to a person as an individual until there is a need for a specific person to be involved. So in the case of an Incident being created by the someone on the Service Desk, we assign it to that individual. When it’s crea

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We automatically assign it to the Helpdesk Group (actually Service Desk if you want to be completely ITIL.) The reason being that ITSM is very locked down, and people who the ticket are not assigned to can't edit it. As a result, you might want the group people go to for help with the application

Asset Management User Moves

2008-05-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, I've been presented with a question that should seem straight forward, but I don't have a good answer for it. We are currently shifting our office and cubicle locations to make room for a bunch of new people, so our I.T. department are in the middle of large scale moves. As a r

Re: How to Submit a suggestion for the next DSL patch

2008-05-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Kelly, It's great that BMC is offering this. However, when I tried running it, it didn't give me an option of what software I have that I want to mail in or not. I saw that there was an "AppScan.exe" file and this one may be useful for that, but it might be good for BMC to update the instruction

Re: Menu in Mid-Tier acting differently than in WUT

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Try deleting the cache on your browser too. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Opela (Corporate) Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:50 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Menu in Mid-Tier acting differently than in WUT ** Update:

Re: Modifying login.jsp - what application to use?

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It depends how much you need to change. For what I've done, notepad, vi, emacs, or wordpad are sufficient. My concern with editing jsp pages in some of the tools like FrontPage is that it could potentially modify things that shouldn't be changed. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARS

Re: IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Davin, You gave me some ideas, although I still haven't resolved the issue. Currently, we are authenticating against AD for the username and passwords. We have multiple ways people can log into the system, and we want the User Tool to allow people to authenticate with their domain password, whil

Re: IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
MAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roney Varghese Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:24 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On Turn on ur plugin logs(fine) and let me know what auth error u see in there? Regards, Roney Varghese Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2008, a

Re: IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
teuser for Single-Sign On Turn on ur plugin logs(fine) and let me know what auth error u see in there? Regards, Roney Varghese Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:12 AM, "Pierson, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added the mid tier ip address as w

Re: Open Window Action over Mid-Tier

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think the key you hit upon is the word "dialog". It is possible that the Open Window action on the active link is set to something other than "Dialog" and has a Target Location of "New", in which case it just opens a new window with both remaining editable. From: Action Request System discuss

Re: IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On

2008-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Single-Sign On Dear Shawn, Have you added the midtier ip address to the areasso.cfg file in the AR Server/conf folder? Regards, Roney Varghese Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:34 PM, "Pierson, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Jarl, > > That got m

Re: IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On

2008-04-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
remoteuser for Single-Sign On Try change this in ..\Tomcat 5.5\conf\server.xml to this: The one you change is: tomcatAuthentication="true" to tomcatAuthentication="false" -- Jarl On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Pierson, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** &g

IIS remoteuser for Single-Sign On

2008-04-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I'm trying to set up single sign on for the mid tier and have almost everything working. The one thing that still seems to be a problem is getting IIS to pass the authenticated user to Jakarta. When I try to log into Remedy, I get the following in my tomcat logs:

Re: Caught exception errors - our solution

2008-04-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I got a response from BMC on my similar issue to upgrade to 7.1.0 patch 2 for the Mid Tier. I don't know if it would resolve everyone's issues, but it may be worth a try. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cordova, Fred Sent: Friday, Apri

Re: Mid-Tier Exception Error

2008-04-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Scott, I just opened a ticket with BMC Support today on this exact same error. However, we are getting it a different way by going through Change Management, so it probably has a different cause. We are on Patch 6 of the Mid Tier, which are you on when encountering this? Shawn Pierson -Orig

Re: Remedy Logo on Email Templates

2008-04-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I use a default header and footer on my ARS-based emails. In the header, you need to identify it as HTML, then you can use HTML formatting in your email, including html IMG tags. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Thursd

Re: OT - RE How to make a Production Server Up?

2008-04-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Thank you for posting this response. I was very close to responding with "Try a ladder" or something equally...unhelpful. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford, Claire Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:14 AM T

Re: One company not able to recieve emails

2008-04-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
___ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:32 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: One company not able to recieve emails I doubt it's Groupwise itself that is the problem, but rather some

Re: One company not able to recieve emails

2008-04-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I doubt it's Groupwise itself that is the problem, but rather some anti-spam rules or something else blocking it. This sounds like an issue the email administrators on both sides should be involved with and testing because it's most likely outside the realm of Remedy. From: Action Request Syste

Re: Remedy Integration

2008-04-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think all the suggestions people are offering are correct. However, one key point you need to find out before proceeding is exactly what they want to integrate to with Remedy. While most of the answers here have been focused on ITSM, there are a lot of home-grown Remedy helpdesk applications ou

BMC Support RFE Document

2008-04-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't really want to start a flame war about BMC Support, but I have a question about RFEs. I recently submitted an Issue to BMC to request an enhancement to Change Management. It's a pretty straight forward request (I asked for the Work Info to be able to be updated on Closed Change Requests)

Re: Open Window to act like an Error Message

2008-04-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What is it you hate about the messages? If it's the text of the message, you can create them in the "AR System Message Catalog" form, and turn on localization on your AR server so they show up. It's designed to be able to localize the messages for international systems, but I've used it in the pa

Re: Remedy Request Console 7.o CTI Question

2008-04-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've been coming up with a list, but I still don't like it. I'm thinking it might be easier to do noun verb noun for these items so the menus are smaller. This is my latest working copy in CSV format. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That isn't complete enough for ITSM 7.0 though. There are some tables (I don't have a complete list off the top of my head) that contain server references too. For example, one is the CAI Application Registry form which has the server name for each app installed. What I've done is develop a scri

RKM - Product Categorization fields limit

2008-04-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon all, I'm working with RKM 7.2, and found a problem that I'm not sure how to get around. I integrated it with Remedy, and am trying to relate things to Incidents. Everything works fine, except when I try to select a Tier 3 Product Category. For Tier 1 I select "Software" and Tier

Re: RKM 7.2 - Anyone integrated it with ITSM?

2008-04-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
m: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:58 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: RKM 7.2 - Anyone integrated it with ITSM? I disagree with the easy to install part. I'm working on it now, and

Re: ITSM7 scenarios

2008-04-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Something that will be an issue for you is both complexity and the fact that you can configure the system quite a bit. If you have enough time to demonstrate all of the applications, you should start with two Incidents on the same issue, which then you relate to a Problem ticket, which produces

Re: Phone number formatting...

2008-04-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In my case, I was able to do all of this with Filters, but the difference is that I have to deal only with U.S.-based numbers. The first filter to execute strips out all characters, and the second filter to execute sets the length of the remaining numerical data, then based on how many numbers I h

Re: RKM 7.2 - Anyone integrated it with ITSM?

2008-04-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I disagree with the easy to install part. I'm working on it now, and BMC Support is stumped. The files are there and the /rkm directory shows up in Tomcat, but it won't start, and doesn't give any errors explaining what is wrong. It is probably easy to install in certain conditions, but in my ca

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What I've had to do in the past in a similar situation is to have the view form referencing a view on my DB that was using a linked server. If you get that part, you can at least see the data. However, if you have issues modifying or submitting the data, unfortunately the next best solution is t

Re: SQL 2000 database to SQL 2005 server

2008-03-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This is what we did last summer and ran into no problems with the ARSystem database. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tricky maybe Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: SQL 2000 database to SQL 2005 serv

Re: Searcing for Defects

2008-03-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
David, They should put an active link on the Product Name field to do a wildcard search. If you try to hit the dropdown, it takes something like three minutes for anything to show up, then you have to scroll through a big list. That way if you type in "Incident" in the field you can get a fast

Re: Approval Setup - ITSM 7 (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-03-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Michael, Just to get it out of the way, I think the Approval Engine is one of the worst products ever made on Remedy. There are many technical and design flaws in it. I believe that is probably why BMC doesn't really support it. To answer question #1, depending on your goals, you have to set

Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-03-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you do a search on the ARSList archives, there was a good description of how to do this. I don't have the person's name that posted it to be able to give them credit (sorry), but here is the text I saved off with instructions on how to add a field to incident: 1.) Add the field "Incident Submi

Re: Find a field by ID

2008-03-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you just need to know the name and what views it is in, I would just run something like this in SQL: select f.fieldid, f.fieldname, s.[name] as formname, v.vuiname as viewname from field f inner join arschema s on s.schemaid = f.schemaid inner join vui v on s.schema

Re: Asset Management and Blackberries

2008-02-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
uter Name field.. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:17 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Asset Management a

Asset Management and Blackberries

2008-02-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, I'm curious if anyone is using Asset Management to track devices like Blackberries. If so, what Class are you storing them in, and how do you track the phone number? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Private and confidential as detailed here: http://www.sug.com/disclaimers/default.htm#M

ITSM 7 Change Approvals between Status Reasons

2008-02-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, I'm running into a strange problem and wonder if any of you have run into it and have a solution. I'm trying to create an approval phase that occurs between two Status Reason fields. What happens is that when testing that Approval Phase, I push the Change ticket into the correc

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
A lot of these questions are good, but I'm wondering if they are the right ones given the current climate of BMC and the direction Remedy is going in. For example, asking someone development questions, such as filter phasing, assumes that they are going to be a Remedy Developer. If I were hiring r

Re: Approval Central

2008-02-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The easiest thing to do is to completely hide the OOtB table field and replace it with one that has more useful data. The majority of the fields on the approval console are not that useful, so I replaced it entirely. Of course, if you use SRM or any other applications that have approvals, you h

Re: Friday Humor: Google and Chuck Norris.. (Corrected)

2008-02-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In New Zealand it is. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Palmer Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:39 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Friday Humor: Google and Chuck Norris.. (Corrected) ** Is it Friday On Thu,

Re: HelpDesk Lite (was: Company Dropping Remedy)

2008-02-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Carey, I think that ideally, smaller businesses that want to use ARS (which BMC doesn't market aggressively enough) should pursue other options. There are vendors, some that post on here, that provide other ITSM suites that are cheaper, simpler, and are probably just as good if not better than th

Web Service Binary Output

2008-02-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, I'm trying out some things with web services and ARS, and I'm curious if there is a way to take binary output from a web service and save it as an attachment on a form. If you have a solution, let me know. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Private and confidential as detailed here: http

SOLVED(?): ITSM Overview Console Error

2008-02-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
that form. Alfredo - Original Message From: "Pierson, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:12:45 AM Subject: ITSM Overview Console Error ** Good morning everyone, This morning, my users suddenly started getting an error

Re: ITSM Overview Console Error

2008-02-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
arplugin.exe it was restarted and the issues went away. Thanks Peter Lammey ESPN MIT Technical Services & Applications Management 860-766-4761 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Tue

ITSM Overview Console Error

2008-02-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning everyone, This morning, my users suddenly started getting an error when they try to use the overview console. I've made no changes to the system and my coworker is out this week for training so he didn't make any changes, so I'm not sure what is causing this. The error I get is:

Re: User Form ARS 7.0.01

2008-02-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you're using ITSM, you should just use the People form to accomplish this. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayfield, Andy L. Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:36 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: User Form

Re: Virtualizing Remedy

2008-02-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We've tried it for development, and it is too slow, even on a very powerful machine with no other active VMs on it. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Pataray Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:23 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Slow saving Active Links after ITSM app install

2008-01-31 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There are two things I do that seem to help quite a bit. 1) Keep your dev server in "Development Cache Mode" and when you make changes to production, set it to that mode temporarily until you are finished with your changes. 2) This is probably controversial and I don't like it either,

OT: RE: FW: ARS posting

2008-01-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
David, This is a little off topic, but I'd like to make a suggestion for you to pass along to BMC's documentation people. Naming a file "65712.pdf" is not a good indication of what that file is about or what it is used for. They need to adopt a more meaningful naming convention to make it easie

OOtB Approval Processes

2008-01-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, It looks like a former colleague made some changes I was not aware of that are causing problems, and as a result, I'd like to get a clean set of data from the "Approval Process Configuration" form in ITSM 7. I'm on 7.0.3 patch 6, but I don't think that part makes a difference.

SRM Best Practices for Advanced Interface forms

2008-01-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, I'm looking at developing some Advanced Interface forms for SRM, and was wondering if anyone has a set of best practices or any tips that might be good to keep in mind. I have a basic understanding of how SRM works, and built one Advanced Interface form that works to create Inci

Re: Question: Overview Console - ITSM 7

2008-01-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We've looked into it, but since it uses a plugin rather than actual Remedy workflow, we decided against trying anything with it. I'd also be interested in seeing if anyone has come up with a good way to do it. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto

SOLVED: ITSM 7.0 Phantom Approval Emails

2008-01-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM 7.0 Phantom Approval Emails ** Could be alternate new sig notifications. Turn on and look at the approval logs, it will tell you how it is finding them. Axton Grams On Jan 4, 2008 8:24 AM, Pierson, Shawn < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

ITSM 7.0 Phantom Approval Emails

2008-01-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, After installing Patch 6 of ITSM 7, we started getting some strange emails coming out of the system. For example, if we have a Change Request that has two Approvers, they get notified, as do a handful of other people that are not related to the Change Request in any way. There a

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